To Be Equal: Justice Alito sullies the integrity of the U.S. Supreme Court

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“Professional baseball would never allow an umpire to continue to officiate the World Series after learning that the pennant of one of the two teams competing was flying in the front yard of the umpire’s home. Nor would an umpire be allowed to call balls and strikes in a World Series game after the umpire’s wife tried to get the official score of a prior game in the series overthrown and canceled out to benefit the losing team. If judges are like umpires, then they should be treated like umpires, not team owners, team fans or players.”& – U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin When the U.S. Supreme Court unveiled its so-called Code of Conduct& late last year, I said it would do nothing& to restrain unethical behavior by the Justices. Justice Samuel Alito has wasted no time in proving me right. The upside-down flag—a symbol of allegiance to& the Big Lie& about the 2020 election—displayed at Alito’s home& in January 2021 violates even the watered-down provisions of the code and disqualifies him from the Jan. 6 cases that are before the court. His feeble explanation, that it was his wife’s decision to fly the flag and she denied his requests to...